Gigan

01. Gigan - The Order Of The False Eye, 2008 CD Album      Napalm Records - NPR 252 02. Gigan - Quasi-Hallucinogenic Sonic Landscapes, 2011 CD Album      Willowtip - WT-090 03. Gigan - Multi-Dimensional Fractal Sorcery And Super Science, 2013 CD Album      Willowtip - WT-121 04. Gigan - Undulating Waves Of Rainbiotic Iridescence, 2017 CD Album      Willowtip - WT-150 Grand noise terror! I am not a fan of Hate Eternal, and I am not a fan of the Dillinger Escape Plan. But when ex Hate Eternal members borrow from the D.E.P. method of ear-torture, we promptly sit down in awe.  The Gorguts-in-a-blender-with-LSD analogy might be more to the point. Gigan's complex-yet-digestible assemblage of multiple layers of death and madness is one unique phenomenon of cold joy and infinity. It is as wild as accurate, and as energetic as explosive. The wide beaches of ambient spacecrafts alternate quickly and slowly at the same time with the singular conflagrations of dissonant ultrariffs while the landscape drips with many fluids oozing from the unidentifiable specimen that listeners are turned into. This is even more awesome than Stephen Hawking's talking chair. Total death from triplazeristic grinding mind blowers! Gigantic masses of inescapable otherworldly air-waves compression! Grind til death! Remove brackets and unzip: [quazer undulazerism] !ZER Gigan ZER!

Fugazi

01. Fugazi - First Demo, 1988 CD      Dischord Records - DIS181CD      Reissue from 2014 - recorded 01/1988 02. Fugazi - 13 Songs, 1989 CD Album Compilation      Dischord Records - Dischord 36 03. Fugazi - Repeater + 3 Songs, 1990 CD Compilation      Dischord Records, Dischord Records - DISCHORD 45, DIS45      12-14: 3 songs 7'' 1990 04. Fugazi - Steady Diet Of Nothing, 1991 CD Album      Dischord Records, Dischord Records - DIS60CD, Dis 60 CD 05. Fugazi - In On The Kill Taker, 1993 CD Album      Dischord Records - dis70cd 06. Fugazi - Red Medicine, 1995 CD Album      Dischord Records - DIS90CD 07. Fugazi - End Hits, 1998 CD Album      Dischord Records - dis110cd      ID3G: 43 Dischord Records 08. Fugazi - Instrument Soundtrack, 1999 CD Album      Dischord Records - DIS 120CD 09. Fugazi - Furniture, 2001 CD Minimax      Dischord Records - dis129cd 10. Fugazi - The Argument, 2001 CD Album      Dischord Records - dis130cd I am so predictable that you saw it coming from 13 miles away, or at least since Sunday. Fugazi is one amazing band that put out my favorite relaxation music. I have always wondered why they were labeled "hardcore", although I find this taxonomy much more satisfying than the abominable term "emo". In their unique way of allying reggae-style grooves with the alt-rock vibe that could also be claimed by Shellac, only with much catchier melodies, they turn the brain into a well rested  place. The early, pre-1991 stuff is a little more abrasive than the rest but never as raw and wild as Minor Threat, and the whole lot is an amazing sonic experience. Their monumental influence can be detected in a trillion bands like the awesome Quicksand, this is how you spot a genuine artistic achievement. I could have ripped the vinyls for the first two 12" EPs, the 3 songs 7" and Repeater, but I have better things to do than rip stuff that sounds better on CD. Just enjoy this absolute classic mountain of Fugazerism! Long live the 90s! Remove brackets and unzip: [fugazer] !ZER Fugazi ZER! PS: the company that hosted the Church Of Zer requests forum sold its assets to another company. I missed a few migration steps and am too lazy to restore my account, so I cannot manage it anymore. Go to the Facebook group instead and post your requests there.

Minor Threat

01. Minor Threat - Complete Discography, 1989 CD Compilation      Dischord Records - Dischord 40 Easy lazy post! For the first time, the most iconic discography in the punk rock religion surfaces here, on this old blog, in one piece, fresh as day one. Among the highest stars of the classic hardcore galaxy, next to MDC and Discharge, Minor Threat shines in the heart of your head forever. Remove brackets and unzip: [zer edge] !ZER Minor Threat ZER!

Soothsayer

01. Soothsayer - Have A Good Time, 1990 Vinyl LP Album      New Renaissance Records - SPV 060-98111 02. Soothsayer - Have A Good Time, 1990 CD Album      New Renaissance Records - SPV 084-98112 03. Soothsayer - To Be A Real Terrorist + Bonus, 2007 CD      Galy Records - GALY-053      1-5: demo 1986, 6-12: live in Montreal 1987 04. Soothsayer - Troops Of Hate, 2013 CD Album      Galy Records - GALY-83 Reminder: the NO RELOAD policy only applies to stuff posted after January 2012 (date of the Great File Sharing Holocaust). Ergo, since they were uploaded here in 2010, the request from a kind visitor for a Soothsayer refresh does not fall under the teleportation to 2505 law. That being said, here come the very intense releases of Soothsayer, Canada's best mashup of Raw Power and Razor: fast blasts of killer thrash! Soothsayer take no prisoner during their harvest of the meat from your bones with their bare teeth. While this is high octane crossover with emphasis on the metal side, addicts to Screams From The Gutter will find plenty of reasons to enjoy the ride, especially on that terrific demo. Plenty! Saw them live a couple of years ago, they still seem active but no new album is announced as far as I know, too bad. There is no flat release here, nothing average either, everything rips! Canada's vicious thrash metal highlight! Thrash til you bleed from all orifices! Remove brackets and unzip: [to be a real zerrorist] !ZER Soothsayer ZER!

Morbid Angel

01. Morbid Angel - Abominations Of Desolation, 1986 CD Album      Earache - MOSH 48CD      Reissue from 1991 02. Morbid Angel - Abominations Of Desolation, 1986 Vinyl Picture Disc LP Album Unofficial Release      Headache Records - HR-AOD-008      Reissue from 1991 03. Morbid Angel - Altars Of Madness, 1989 CD Album      Earache - MOSH 11CD 04. Morbid Angel - Blessed Are The Sick, 1991 CD Album      Earache, Earache - MOSH 31 CD, MOSH31CD 05. Morbid Angel - Covenant, 1993 CD Album      Giant Records - 9 24504-2 06. Morbid Angel - Domination, 1995 CD Album      Giant Records - CD 24612 07. Morbid Angel - Entangled In Chaos, 1996 CD Album      Earache - MOSH 167 CD 08. Morbid Angel - Formulas Fatal To The Flesh, 1998 CD Album Promo      Earache - MOSH 180 CD PRO 09. Morbid Angel - Gateways To Annihilation , 2000 CD Album Enhanced Limited Edition      Earache - MOSH 235 CD 10. Morbid Angel - Heretic, 2003 CD Album Limited Edition x 2      Earache, Earache - MOSH 272 CDL, MOSH272CDL 11. Morbid Angel - Heretic, 2003 CD Album Limited Edition x 2      Earache, Earache - MOSH 272 CDL, MOSH272CDL      Bonus CD 12. Morbid Angel - Illud Divinum Insanus, 2011 CD Album Limited Edition      Season Of Mist - SOM 222M 13. Morbid Angel - Juvenilia, 2015 Vinyl LP Album Limited Edition      Earache - MOSH545LP      Not a vinyl rip - Live 1989 14. Morbid Angel - Kingdoms Disdained, 2017 CD Album      Silver Lining Music, Silver Lining Music - SLM071P18, 0190296942310 AABCDEFGHIJK! Eternal black sunshine of the spotless death! It seems appropriate to counterbalance the primitiveness of the previous post with the sophistication of the grand masters of death metal. No introduction necessary, this is the stuff of legends, and so on. Everything shines from exposure to the eternal black light of Morbid Angel and every meat melts under the pressure of the almighty riffs. I worship everything they have released. I am among the very few fans of the very much hated Illud album. I love it and all is well in the morbidverse! And the new Kingdoms is simply one of the best releases of 2017! Deathlleluyah! Remove brackets and unzip: [lemon pies and tennis players] !ZER Morbid Angel ZER!

Vasaeleth

01. Vasaeleth - Crypt Born & Tethered To Ruin, 2010 CD Album      Profound Lore Records - PFL-054 02. Vasaeleth - All Uproarious Darkness, 2013 CD EP      Profound Lore Records - PFL-121 From the pits of eternal moisture and damnation, please welcome Vasaeleth and its primitive sounds. This is only for fans of basic, raw, two-riffs caveman death metal. The first album sounds like an early Incantation test bench demo. Should we keep this riff ? And this one ? Let's play them four times together to check out how it all rolls out while I vomit in the microphone. The mini CD is not that much more advanced, but it has a slightly better production. Depending on your mood, this stuff can be irritating for its laziness, or fun for its peddling of cavernous barbarism. It does not feature the extremity of, say, Tetragrammacide (my new darlings), nor the heaviness of, say, Temple Of Void (my other new darlings). But despite these unkind comments, it still delivers sufficient competency in the dirty decibels department, like a very fast doom fest. And I like the artwork. Remove brackets and unzip: [dans la vase] !ZER Vasaeleth ZER!

Skitsystem

01. Skitsystem - Enkel Resa Till Rännstenen, 2001 CD Album      No Tolerance Records - ZERO 003 02. Skitsystem - Allt E Skit, 2002 CD Compilation      Barbarian Records - 603      1-6: Profithysteri EP 1995, 7-16: Ondskans Ansikte EP 1996, 17-18: Split W/ Wolfpack 1997 03. Skitsystem - Stigmata, 2006 Vinyl LP Album      Havoc Records - HC-1231 Dbeat aggression day! Skitsystem featured the singer of At The Gates but specialized in Discharge Noise Terror worship, the harsh way. Stigmata is maybe a little more "melodic". Fans of the second wave of Swedish crust cataclysm of the early Disfear and Wolfpack sort will totally enjoy Skitsystem, but they already know that. Very efficient, very raw, very merciless nervous system stress test! Crust mania till triplazer! PS: a FLAC link to the 1st album is welcome. Remove brackets and unzip: [in thrash we crust] !ZER Skitsystem ZER!

Riot

01. Riot - Rock City, 1977 Vinyl LP Album      Attic - LAT 1041 02. Riot - Narita, 1979 Vinyl LP Album      Victor - VIP-6623 03. Riot - Restless Breed, 1982 Vinyl LP Album      Elektra - XE1-60134 04. Riot - Thundersteel, 1988 CD Album      CBS Associated Records - ZK 44232      Reissue from 0 05. Riot - Riot Live, 1989 CD Album      CBS/Sony - CSCS 5024      Live 1980 & 1981 06. Riot - The Privilege Of Power, 1990 CD Album      Epic - 466486 2 07. Riot - Riot In Japan - Live!!, 1992 CD Album      Sony Records - SRCS 5810 08. Riot - Night Breaker, 1993 CD Album Reissue      Metal Blade Records - 3984-14239-2      Reissue from 1999 09. Riot - Fire Down Under, 1981 CD Album Reissue Remastered      High Vaultage - HV-1021 10. Riot - Born In America, 1984 CD Album      Metal Blade Records - 3984-14234-2 11. Riot - Inishmore , 1999 CD Album      Letom Productions - TOCP50773      1998 12. Riot - Live In Japan, 1999 CD Album      Metal Blade Records - 3984-14241-2 13. Riot - Sons Of Society, 1999 CD Album      Metal Blade Records - 3984-14249-2 14. Riot - The Brethren Of The Long House, 2002 CD Album      CD-Maximum - CDM 0502-882 15. Riot - Through The Storm, 2002 CD Album      Metal Blade Records - 3984-14399-2 16. Riot - Army Of One, 2007 CD Album      Mystic Empire, Mazzar Records - MYST CD 195, MYST CD 195 17. Riot - Immortal Soul, 2011 CD Album      Steamhammer - SPV 309872 CD 18. Riot - Unleash The Fire, 2014 CD Album Limited Edition      Steamhammer, Steamhammer - SPV 1267900, SPV 267900 According to Last.fm's bureau of statistics, Riot is the band I listened to the most in 2017. So let's hear what's in this almost four decades long output. There are a few black dots in this series - I have a hard time with the Rhett Forrester albums and the excessively cheesy Irishmore - but the main course - everything except 1982/1983 and Irishmore - is entirely awesome hard rock and speed metal, with a few layers of cheese in the form of ballads, you know, heavy metal ballads. But the rest was meant to become classic material. They could have made it to the front league with Judas Priest and Saxon and Iron Maiden. My most favorite is the victorious Immortal Soul - that one has a particular energy, the first song is simply the most exciting metal anthem on this side of the Zeriverse. Riot till the breaking of all necks and the banging of all heads! Riot in 2018 and a rocking new year! Remove brackets and unzip: [whats it gonna taaaaaaake] !ZER Riot ZER!